The OSR is not dead, it’s sleeping

When my kids were about 2 and 4 years old, a squirrel jumped onto the power transformer by our house. It did not go well: the squirrel was blown off onto the road, power went out for our neighborhood, and my kids asked me, staring at the dead squirrel from our yard: Daddy, is that squirrel dead, or just sleeping? Uh, he’s dead (and yes, this is a real thing made by a real taxidermist). By all accounts, the Old School Renaissance is dead, broken into pieces when G+ died back in 2019. And by all accounts, I mean this thorough one by Prismatic Wasteland, and all the blogs it cites. Ask other people, and the OSR could be on a fourth-wave, or even a holy toad brain-infection. So if the OSR died in 2019, have any innovations happened in the OSR scene since then? Let me consult a list or two: Black Sword Hack (2020), Cairn (2020), Worlds Without Number (2021), Hyperborea (2021), Vaults of Vaarn (2022), Errant (2022), Dragonbane (2023), Shadowdark (2023), Tales of Argosa (2024), His Majesty…